53 and out of it
So, there I was tonight, at my favorite microbrewery/pizzaria, in Scottsdale, sitting at the bar, sipping a nice handmade pale ale, waiting for a little formaggio pizza, subjecting myself to head splitting, current rock tunes, blasting over the restaurant's sound system. Questionable music or the muted, widescreen ESPN sports events du jour is not why I'm here, so I patiently awaited my pizza as I read the Arizona Republic.
Then, I happened to recognize one of the "songs" playing and I asked John, the Gen X bartender, if he knew who the group was. He said it sounded like Coldplay, as if I would actually know the group, (I recognized the song "Talk" because talk radio station, KFYI, here in Phoenix uses that song on one of its promos). The Gen X girls sitting near me concurred with the barkeep and they helpfully added that the lead singer was married to Gwyneth Paltrow. Well, that was somewhat interesting! Maybe a light hearted conversation was in the works!
I contributed to the budding conversation saying that he sounded very much like David Gates, lead singer of the group, Bread, at which point I was met with blank stares of silence...they were clueless and I was completely out of the generational loop!
A quip of some sort was in order, but all I could think to say was, "I guess you just had to be there...In the '70's that is...way before you all were born!"
Scintillating conversation wasn't among the reasons I was there either. Still, the pizza and handcrafted libations more than filled the generation gap.
Then, I happened to recognize one of the "songs" playing and I asked John, the Gen X bartender, if he knew who the group was. He said it sounded like Coldplay, as if I would actually know the group, (I recognized the song "Talk" because talk radio station, KFYI, here in Phoenix uses that song on one of its promos). The Gen X girls sitting near me concurred with the barkeep and they helpfully added that the lead singer was married to Gwyneth Paltrow. Well, that was somewhat interesting! Maybe a light hearted conversation was in the works!
I contributed to the budding conversation saying that he sounded very much like David Gates, lead singer of the group, Bread, at which point I was met with blank stares of silence...they were clueless and I was completely out of the generational loop!
A quip of some sort was in order, but all I could think to say was, "I guess you just had to be there...In the '70's that is...way before you all were born!"
Scintillating conversation wasn't among the reasons I was there either. Still, the pizza and handcrafted libations more than filled the generation gap.
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